Introduction

[Tim St Clair]

Feel free to ping me on freenode #fedora-devel, or #fedora-bigdata.

We've been doing a fair amount of packaging lately, and could offer up tips where needed. 

I often find the best starting point is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers

You will want to also read: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Java

Cheers,
Tim

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tako Schotanus" <tschotan at redhat.com>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 6:58:03 AM
> Subject: Introduction
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I read that somebody wanting to be a package maintainer should introduce
> themselves, well here goes.
> 
> I'm Tako, a Software Engineer for Red Hat working on a new language, Ceylon
> (http://ceylon-lang.org), that runs on top of the Java and Javascript VMs.
> We just published out first 1.0.0 and although we already had RPMs  (and
> ZIPs and DEBs) that could be downloaded from our website for a while now
> we'd like to add the package to the official Fedora repositories now that
> we're at 1.0.0 (also because Ubuntu is working on getting the package into
> their repos and as a RedHat sponsored project it would be weird if we didn't
> do the same for Fedora, right?)
> 
> So I'm completely new to this packaging business, I managed to piece together
> a SPEC file that results in an actually working RPM for our project and even
> Koji seems to accept it, but there's so much information to absorb that I'm
> feeling a bit out of my depth. (Our project being a programming language
> we're dealing with some difficult issues with respect to versioning and
> such, for now I've copied Java's with alternatives and such which might or
> not be a good idea). So if there are some friendly people here that can
> guide me through my first real submission that would be great!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tako Schotanus
> Senior Software Developer
> Ceylon Language Project
> www.ceylon-lang.org
> RedHat
> 
> 
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Cheers,
Tim